22:11 - Hex_Omegaflight, change your title from 'Stamp Tramp' to 'Master Of The Lists'. 15 lists in 4 months, lol

22:02 - mzyeah Neachy. I've been so out of the metal globe for 2.5 months and have checked only 4 albums: Eerie( 2014), that black metal album with red cover form Iceland, desolate shrine and Abyssal Gods. All of them are very good :D

The Eternal return with their sophomore album entitled "Sleep Of Reason" a worthy follow up to their debut "The Sombre Light Of Isolation".
Things have changed since their debut album, after several spins of this album, the whole atmosphere feels less darker and sombre than their debut. Also, the band goes for 2 types of songs now, some are very Doomy and some others are quite Gothic and I dare to say "commercial".

But fear not, this is not a bad album in any way, is just a natural progression, nobody wants to hear the same album twice.
The album starts with a short intro called "Awaken, Arise" and immediately cuts to "Everlasting" a damn catchy song that has written "radio hit" all over.
"To Drown" is a return to the darker roots of the band, this song showcases the powerful and dramatic vocals of Mark Kelson. "Hollow Inside" is a awesome ballad with a lot of memorable moments, "A Dream's End" is another upbeat catchy song in the vein of "Everlasting" while "The Dying Light" brings again the gloom and melancholy that we're used to when listening The Eternal.

Definitively this album is much more varied than its predecessor, the range of influences seems wider and the trademarks of the band also expanded, there's still the marvellous keyboards and vocals as always, but the album definitively feels different.

Special mention to the artwork and presentation, totally top notch, the cover art designed by artist extraordinaire Travis Smith is eye candy for anyone into this kind of sombre art. (as a matter of fact, the cover art was inspired in a Francisco Goya etching).

As I stated before, this is a worthy successor to their first album, while the level of gloom and despair has gone down a notch, you can still rely on those melancholic atmospheres that The Eternal always deliver. To any fan of Gothic or Doom Metal, this album is totally recommended.

The Australian band The Eternal arose, a few years ago, from the ashes of Cryptal Darkness, a band that had co-operated with a very important member of the most historical period of My Dying Bride, Martin Powell, playing the violin in their albums as well. Their name gives more information than you can imagine for the sound identity of the band and, of course, as you correctly realized, I am referring to Paradise Lost, a band that wanders a lot in the compositions of The Eternal.